From the Baltimore Sun.com - click here to read more...
CHICAGO // In the last five years, the federal budget has done a good impression of major-league sluggers, bulking up to such frightful proportions as to be almost unrecognizable. Baseball responded to the excess girth by cracking down on steroids. President Bush, however, wants to try stomach-stapling. Last week, he urged Congress to give him a line-item veto so he can "reduce wasteful spending."
In reality, he's about as likely to cut spending as he is to give the next State of the Union address in Aramaic. Since he took office in 2001, federal outlays have increased by $845 billion a year - a 27 percent jump after adjusting for inflation. Says budget analyst Brian Riedl of the conservative Heritage Foundation: "He's expanded government more than any president since Franklin Roosevelt."
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